" One billion Chinese people are not be bullied." With that harsh
rejoinder, Peking's official New China News Agency recently went out of
its way to lambast a Wall Street Journal editorial that called on the
Reagan Administration to "stop cringing every time Peking throws a
tantrum," and give more help to Taiwan. Some Americans, an article by
the New China News Agency said, believe that China is "a piece of cake
to be sliced as they please."

That is hardly the case. Successive Washington Administrations have
performed a difficult and delicate diplomatic...